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A commonly used abbreviation for Artificial Intelligence. It is also an Anglicization of the Japanese word 愛 (pronounced, uh-eye), which means love. This is a source of endless puns and parodies in the realm of futuristic Japanese anime.

January 11, 2019 | CogWorld on FORBES
Introduction
The evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) — from artificial narrow intelligence (ANI), through artificial general intelligence (AGI), to artificial super intelligence (ASI) — is on its way to changing everything. It's expected that soon, artificial intelligence will combine the intricacy and pattern recognition strength of human intelligence with the speed, memory and knowledge sharing of machine intelligence.
As the rise of AI continues, AI…

January 15, 2019 | CogWorld on FORBES
IntroductionThe rapid progress and development in artificial intelligence (AI) is prompting desperate speculation about its dual use applications and security risks. From autonomous weapons systems (AWS) to facial recognition technology to decision-making algorithms, each emerging application of artificial intelligence brings with it both good and bad. It is this dual nature of artificial intelligence technology that is bringing enormous security risks to not only…

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“Read The Economic Singularity if you want to think intelligently about the future.”
Aubrey de Grey
Artificial intelligence (AI) is overtaking our human ability to absorb and process information. Robots are becoming increasingly dextrous, flexible, and safe to be around (except the military ones!). It is our most powerful technology, and you need to understand it.
This new book from best-selling AI writer Calum Chace argues that within a few decades, most humans will not be able to work for money. …

By Kate Levchuk | January 6, 2019 | CogWorld on FORBES
There's no doubt we'll hear more on the progress of artificial intelligence, gene editing, quantum computing and robotics for years to come. Based on the trends and an unfolding story, it looks like blockchain and cryptocurrencies may end up in the dustbin of history, while cybersecurity and data privacy will become even more prominent in the 21stcentury.
It's revealing to see the upcoming trends based on carefully calculated investment decisions…

By Chuck Brooks | January 1, 2019 | CogWorld on FORBES
2018 was surely a transformative year for technological innovation. We saw early development of ambient computing, quantum teleportation, cloaks of invisibility, genomics advancements and even robocops. Granted we're not flying around in our own cars like the Jetsons did yet, but we're closer. In 2019, we will continue on the transformation path and expand even more into adopting cutting edge immersive technologies. What's ahead for the coming…

By Alex Zhavoronkov, PhD | December 21, 2018 | Cognitive World on Forbes
The idea that we are living inside a simulation is not new. Many religions propose the existence of a creator—an omnipotent deity who formed the world and set its rules in motion—but this is simply another way of framing the video game hypothesis.
It’s bigger than you think. Of the 7.4 billion people on this planet, only about 1.2 billion are non-religious or atheist. In other words, 84 percent of us are comfortable with the…

By Alex Zhavoronkov, PhD | Wednesday, December 26, 2018 | Cognitive World on Forbes
If life is a video game or a simulated reality, what are the rules and how are we being evaluated?
One approach for developing and testing Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is to create and place autonomous intelligent agents inside realistic simulations—but with no obvious objective. This strategy is not so different from our lives. We do not have a clear objective for winning the game of life.
It is a problem…

By Sameer Dhanrajani | December 29, 2018 | Source: CogWorld on FORBES
Three Ways to Facilitate a Symbiotic Relationship between Cognitive Intelligence and Behavioral Sciences
After every conference, I speak at about the transformative power of Artificial Intelligence and its potential to unlock untold business value, the one question that often crops up from the audience is if AI is expected to perform much of the grunt work in the enterprise world, what scope is there for the so-called ‘human’…

By Calum Chace | December 18, 2018 | Source: CogWorld in FORBES
Self-driving cars – or Autos, as I hope we’ll call them – passed several important milestones in 2018, and they will pass several more in 2019. The big one came at the end of the year, on December 5th: Google’s Autos spin-out Waymo launched the world’s first commercial self-driving taxi service, open to citizens in Phoenix, Arizona, who are not employees of the company and not bound by confidentiality agreements.
This service,…

By Ron Schmelzer | December 12, 2018 | Source: CogWorld on FORBES
Last week, Amazon hosted its popular and growing AWS Re: Invent event focused on all things around the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud environment. In addition to the many announcements featured in last week’s articlehighlighting Amazon’s many AI and machine learning-related announcements, many of the hundreds of partner vendor and consulting companies that were there had similar innovative announcements. In this article, we highlight…

By Ron Schmelzer | December 6, 2018 | Source: CogWorld on FORBES
The last week of November is always fully packed with companies working to squeeze in as much productivity as possible between Thanksgiving (in the US) and the winter holiday season. Amazon makes the most of this with their Amazon Web Services (AWS) Re:Invent show that continues to grow. In 2018, this year, almost 50,000 people made their way to Las Vegas to hear from AWS CEO Andy Jassy and key strategic leaders about the advancements AWS…

By Neil Sahota | December 3, 2018 | Source: CogWorld on FORBES
In 2018, sex scandal after sex scandal seared the pages of our newspapers and digital screens. Hashtags, such as #timesup and #metoo, became rallying cries for harassed and disenfranchised women who found their voices with high-profile allegations. Likewise, as a result of marches in numerous countries, and record numbers of women running for office, 2018 has been dubbed The Year of the Woman. It also has been called The Year of AI. Ralph…

By Peter Fingar | November 18, 2018 | Source: CogWorld on FORBES
Creative Destruction — What Came Before, What’s Coming Next
Prior to the beginnings of Internet-based e-commerce, the computer was essentially a filing cabinet, handling the affairs of the back office, programmed under the file clerk metaphor: capture, storage and retrieval of records. Today, however, we are not only seeing Sun Microsystems’ early vision that the network is the computer, now we can observe that the network is the business…

By Neil Sahota | November 25, 2018 | Source: CogWorld on FORBES
I am never cleanly shaven. But it’s not because I’m lazy. Or because I don’t care about my appearance. Three years ago, I stopped shaving with water to conserve H20. It might seem like a little thing, but little things add up.
When I tell people this, they sometimes scoff at me.
“Oh, come on,” they say. “Just how much water are you actually saving?”
About a gallon a day. That comes out to 365 gallons a year. That’s not a whole lot, I’…

By Naveen Joshi | November 5, 2018 | CogWorld on FORBES
Is data the new oil? Considering oil’s sky-high demand by both industry and government organizations and the fact that oil only becomes more valuable post-refining and offers a competitive edge to those owning this commodity in surplus, I feel the analogy between data and oil is quite justified. Just as oil requires processing to become usable and is fed to engines to work and create value, data requires cleaning and is fed to algorithms to…

By Ron Schmelzer | November 5, 2018 | Source: CogWorld on FORBES
Rethink Robotics shuttered its doors and closed for good on October 4, 2018. For many casual observers the collapse of a much-celebrated company, founded by preeminent artificial intelligence (AI) researcher and minor celebrity Rodney Brooks was a surprise. To others, it’s just the latest indication of the trouble in robotics land. According to the company, Rethink Robotics was forced to shut its doors when it couldn’t find additional…

By Neil Sahota | October 29, 2018 | Source: CogWorld on FORBES
“We now live in a global, exponential world,” Steven Kotler tells my coauthor Michael Ashley and me from his Santa Monica office. We’re interviewing the New York Times bestselling author and entrepreneur for our upcoming book: Uber Yourself Before You Get Kodaked: A Modern Primer on A.I. for the Modern Business. “You need to understand our brains evolved in a local, linear environment. We cannot process change at this speed or this scale;…

By Francesco Corea, Ph.D. | October 15, 2018 | Source: CogWorld on FORBESFrancesco Corea is a Complexity Scientist, Tech Investor, Data Strategist and AI Advisor
The 21st century would be the “century of complexity” (Hawking, 2000)
I. Setting the stage
The IoT and consumer hardware industry have seen multiple failures and a few exits over the last 12–18 months (while the B2B side has been doing a bit better overall) and some criticism has been recently made to the industry to slow down.
In spite…

By Hessie Jones | September 28, 2018 Hessie Jones is a Reporter from Toronto, and is a CoFounder of ArCompany
This is Part I of a two-part series of my interview with Kimera Systems, an Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) technology company that is challenging our current systems: our global economic model, how we currently use digital, and how that has to change for a collective path forward.
Today, we are witnessing an unrelenting turbulence in technology, concurrent with the human-induced threats…

By Neil Sahota | October 20, 2018 | Source: CogWorld on FORBES
“Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity,” author, computer scientist, and inventor Ray Kurzweil once said. “We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about human beings.” In the past few years, there has been considerable discussion around the idea we are slowly merging with our technology, that we are becoming transhuman, with updated abilities, including enhanced intelligence, strength and awareness…

By Thomas Seoh | September 28, 2018 | Source: CogWorld on FORBESThomas Seoh is CEO of Kinexum, a life sciences strategic advisory firm providing guidance on regulatory, clinical and other translational matters for life science product development.
The pace of acceleration in the past several years in AI seems to be starting to climb the exponential part of the “S” curve. From playing Go, to translating one human language into another, to predicting and attempting to compose hit tunes, to…

By Kurt Cagle | September 29, 2018 | Source: CogWorld on FORBES
Your business has its own language. If you sell cars, then you need not only make, model and year, but also MSRP, leather bucket seats and dealer incentives. If you are a dentist, knowing about bicuspids, prostheses and various forms of anesthesia is a must. Media companies have producers and writers, actors and grips, distribution networks and video masters. Business language is code.
This language is not only critical to being able…

By Hessie Jones | July 28, 2018 | Source: CogWorld on ForbesHessie Jones is CogWord's Reporter from Toronto, and is a CoFounder of Salsa AI
How does technology alter an industry that is heavily regulated, with strong checks and balances and where information is heavily guarded? The real estate industry is comprised mainly of independent realtors, unified under brokerage houses and a nationwide real estate association. Within the confines of this oligopoly are rules to protect its players and ensure…

By Ron Schmelzer | June 5, 2018Columnist Ron Schmelzer is Senior Analyst and Founder at Cognilytica
One of the downsides to the recent revival of popularity of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is that we see a lot of vendors, professional services firms, and end users jumping on the AI bandwagon labeling their technologies, products, service offerings, and projects as AI projects without necessarily that being the case. On the other hand, there isn’t a well-accepted delineation between what is definitely AI…

By Hessie Jones | May 26, 2018Hessie Jones is CogWord's Reporter from Toronto, and is a CoFounder of Salsa AI
It was about a decade ago that this idea of Omnichannel began to take hold. Traditional retailers saw it as a "concept" as their predominantly bricks and mortars presence continued to be the focus channel to serve their customers. Fast forward to 2018 and Machine Learning is bringing this concept into fruition. By definition,
“Omnichannel promises to bring retailers closer to their customers…

By Francesco Corea, Ph.D. | May 24, 2018Francesco Corea is a Complexity Scientist, Tech Investor, Data Strategist and AI Advisor
IV. Decentralized Intelligent Companies
There is plenty of landscapes of blockchain and cryptocurrencies startups out there. I am anyway only interested in those companies working at the intersection (or the convergence, as someone calls it) of AI and blockchain, which apparently are not that many. They are mainly concentrated in San Francisco area and London, but there are…

By Francesco Corea, Ph.D. | May 24, 2018Francesco Corea is a Complexity Scientist, Tech Investor, Data Strategist and AI Advisor
III. How Blockchain can change AI
In the previous section, we quickly touched upon the effects that AI might eventually have on the blockchain. Now instead, we will make the opposite exercise understanding what impact can the blockchain have on the development of machine learning systems. More in details, blockchain could:
Help AI explaining itself (and making us believe it…

By Francesco Corea, Ph.D. | May 24, 2018Francesco Corea is a Complexity Scientist, Tech Investor, Data Strategist and AI Advisor
II. How AI can change Blockchain
Although extremely powerful, a blockchain has its own limitations as well. Some of them are technology-related while others come from the old-minded culture inherited from the financial services sector, but all of them can be affected by AI in a way or another:
Energy consumption: mining is an incredibly hard task that requires a ton of…

By Francesco Corea, Ph.D. | May 21, 2018Columnist Francesco Corea is a Complexity Scientist, Tech Investor, Data Strategist and AI Advisor
It is undeniable that AI and blockchain are two of the major technologies that are catalyzing the pace of innovation and introducing radical shifts in every industry. Each technology has its own degree of technical complexity as well as business implications but the joint use of the two may be able to redesign the entire technological (and human) paradigm from…

By Ron Schmelzer | May 4, 2018Columnist Ron Schmelzer is Senior Analyst and Founder at Cognilytica
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not the only technology that’s getting a lot of media and investor attention these days. Blockchain is emerging as a technology in its own right separate from the much-hyped rise in value of cryptocurrencies. Proponents of blockchain claim that it will have fundamental, ground-breaking impact on all industries, changing the way that we transact with one another. Blockchain…

By Hessie Jones, CogWorld Reporter, Toronto | April 23, 2018
More than ever before, the consumer has become fully aware of the extent to which they are being surveilled, and influenced or some would argue, manipulated. This post discusses the increasingly on-demand market and how data has enabled this. It also challenges the relationship between the business and its customers and introduces an era of more balanced control of data and the inevitable privacy and security regulations that will drive…

By Jim Sinur | January 22, 2018
History teaches us that there were two large AI Winters in the past. One starting in the mid 1970s and another in the late 1980's There were very clear reasons for the last two AI Winters, but most of the technical and cost issues are gone. The wild card is how humans accept AI this time around. My bet is against another brutal winter. This does not mean there won't be cold snaps, but a 15-20 year freeze out doesn't seem likely now.The First AI Winter:
It was caused by a…

By Fabio Bottacci | Founder, CEO of VINCI Digital | February 19, 2018
Trillion-dollar projections on the expanding size of the market are urging companies to capitalize on the Industrial IoT [IIoT]. For many, however, it remains unclear how industries should apply IIoT to begin making the hyper-efficient and agile factory of the future a reality.
Fabio Bottacci, Founder and CEO of VINCI Digital and Industrial IoT Expert Contributor at the World Economic Forum and at the Brazilian Development Bank (…

By Jim Sinur | February 6, 2018
We know that AI will be assisting us at work in a more influential way over time and will help us reach organizational goals. What do you think of AI influencing your every day life beyond super charging searches, playing your favorite music and controlling individual devices. AI will help us look better, act better and participate better in social interactions. As we are successful at work with AI, we will trust it more in our personal lives.
AI will Help Us Look Better…

By Jack C Crawford, CEO at Datalog.ai | February 21, 2017 | Source: Linkedin
MyPolly™ is a natural language understanding engine built within an easy to use tool for chatbot builders and developers of virtual assistants. It makes machine to human interactions more intelligent, personalized and conversational.
Today’s AI tools only respond to a few phrases or questions, and cannot maintain the flow of communication from beginning to end. To address this, some chatbot software developers will use…

September 28, 2016 | Source: AI Business
AI Business recently got the chance to speak to Jack Crawford, the founder and CEO of datalog.ai.
datalog.ai is a San Francisco startup that is building advanced models for interpretation, prediction, and the empowerment of humans with artificial intelligence. They are focused on developing AI software to personalise user experiences through the discovery of behaviour to enhance outcomes with better information and accuracy. Their AI+ platform focuses on…

Praful Krishna, CEO, Coseer | February 12, 2016 | Source: Linkedin
AI systems are thought to be very complex. Some of the popular ones have been in the works for about a decade. At Coseer, we have been at it for more than three years now. However, AI systems can actually be very simple as well. While someday there will be an all purpose sentient intelligence, today, design of effective AI systems should answer the following questions:
Purpose: What is the AI going to be used for? This question has the…

Praful Krishna, CEO, Coseer | May 15, 2017 | Source: Coseer
It’s conquered Go and cracked the labyrinthine code of human language but, on a global scale, the technology of artificial intelligence is still maturing. To get to the next generation of AI, we need to equip it with accountability and democratize it with scale. AI that is able to show us exactly how it makes all decisions, will allow us to understand its reasoning. AI that is lightweight, yet powerful enough to efficiently apply to applications…

By David Schatsky, Craig Muraskin, Kaushik Iyengar | Source: Deloitte
Bots can automate routine tasks and eliminate inefficiency, but what about higher-order work requiring judgment and perception? Developers are incorporating cognitive technologies, including machine learning and speech recognition, into robotic process automation—and giving bots new power.
Companies are increasingly using software robots to perform routine business processes by mimicking the ways in which people interact with…

Source: Deloitte
Anupam Narula, David Schatsky, Ben Stiller, Robert Libbey
June 3, 2015
The time could be ripe for consumers and consumer products companies to embrace cognitive technologies, which can offer companies ways to deliver benefits to consumers to a greater degree than previously possible.
Introduction
Isabella was skeptical. Date night with her husband—the first in a long time—was four days away, and with the kids, dog, house, and a job, she had zero time to make it to the makeup counter…

The entire discipline of cognitive computing is about making artificial intelligence emulate the cognitive processes humans are so used to. In this presentation we talk about five techniques / technologies that we have found to be very successful. These techniques are foundational to Coseer’s tactical cognitive computing, and can be useful to your team.
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We are thrilled that Coseer has been judged as the Best Intelligent Workflow Technology in US for the year by Capital Finance Institute. The Editorial Panel writes:
Providing superpowers to repetitive and predictable workflows via tactical cognitive software allows companies to free-up valuable staff time in order that workers may concentrate on creative tasks and exercise judgment at crucial junctions. Confined and entrusted to technology, routine tasks – the bane of many a professional – are effectively…